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Rovers Retreat

Rovers Retreat (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,006 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($128,982). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$351k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$305k
Net assets
$78k
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Rovers Retreat does

Mission

To find homes for otherwise stray abandoned reliquished and homeless dogs and cats. To obtain medical services including spay and neuter, surgery and treatment as needed prior to adoption. To provide temporary foster homes until permanent homes are found.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Obtain Medical services including spay and neuter, microchip implant and registration, veterinary exams, surgery and treatment.Reimbursement of vet deposit $2,600Vet Care $167,465.12

    $170,065 spent
    51% of program spending
  2. Incur 'Pull' fees from shelters and other rescues. These pull fees are recouped through adoption fees.Pull fees $62,367.34

    $62,367 spent
    19% of program spending
  3. When unable to place pets in private homes of fosters, we board the dogs temporarily.Boarding Fees $55,776.10

    $55,776 spent
    17% of program spending
  4. Animal welfare costs:Collars, Leashes $5,632.98Supplies $31,134.13Grooming $527.74Medicine $2,725.32Website/Datebase $1,215.88Transportation $1,555

    $42,791 spent
    13% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $330,999.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($218k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2021 Revenue 140 ($348k) Expenses 166 ($361k) Net assets 74 ($39k)2022 Revenue 117 ($291k) Expenses 126 ($274k) Net assets 105 ($56k)2023 Revenue 133 ($331k) Expenses 144 ($315k) Net assets 135 ($72k)2024 Revenue 129 ($320k) Expenses 150 ($328k) Net assets 119 ($63k)2025 Revenue 141 ($351k) Expenses 154 ($337k) Net assets 147 ($78k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (141)Expenses (154)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $63k to $39k (−38%).

$63k
$39k
$56k
$72k
$63k
$78k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

53% of Rovers Retreat’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
’20
−$14k
’21
$17k
’22
$16k
’23
−$8k
’24
$15k
’25
2.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202020212022202320242025
Listed656666
Joined·+0+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·11100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $11k → $53k.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Rovers Retreat’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Rovers Retreat leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Rovers Retreat.

42%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 49% · 2020 55% · 2021 50% · 2022 98% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of Rovers Retreat's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of Rovers Retreat's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from California funders.

WA
NY
PA
CA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $293k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Rovers Retreat's revenue grew 41% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Rovers Retreat receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78 on record.

State$78
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $78

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Rovers Retreat

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Rovers Retreat?
Rovers Retreat (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,006 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($128,982). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Rovers Retreat have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $305,006 in grants to Rovers Retreat, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Rovers Retreat?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $128,982 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Rovers Retreat find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing